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Waiting Quietly

The sound of focused typing was always the melody on these Sunday afternoons. Really it wasn't that I minded being inside on a beautiful day, I wouldn't have wanted to leave him alone at that desk anyway. But...

I slowly leaned into my hand as I gazed at the side of his face. His eyes were tight with focus, and every muscle in his body seemed waiting and ready to combat the next possible line of failed code.

The sun was shining just outside the window; casting a few rays onto his blonde hair. I figured I could have quietly stood and walked out the door without him even noticing. But I never would have considered doing that.

Just why that was, I had realized and accepted a long time ago. But somehow he still didn't quite understand... Thoughtlessly he reached to push the glass frames a little higher up the bridge of his nose, as his eyes dashed from one number to the next.

He was always pushing himself to the point of exhaustion. For the sake of the world...for his friends...for me. Truthfully he always was the first to remind everyone just what was at stake. To remind everyone just what one afternoon spent carelessly might cost us in our fight.

A tiny smile curved at my lips.

To the point of annoyance sometimes... But he lived all too faithfully by his own counsel. And in the little ways I could see just how much he wished he didn't have to.

Yet we both knew how important it was for him to keep working.

I didn't know very much about what his life was like before he found the super computer, only that whatever it was he had given it up. He had given it up first and foremost for me. And I understood why... I was the sort of person that could realize what all his efforts truly meant.

Without words he had made his feelings very clear. I let go of a slight sigh as I kept my eyes focused on him. He wasn't the kind of person to understand why I was sitting here though. He always seemed so afraid that I might disappear from his life, if not because of XANA, then because I'd at some point lose interest in him all together.

He probably figured it was impossible for me to care about him. Maybe he assumed that the new life he had given me, couldn't be shared with him. That I'd move forward and he'd stay behind.

But he didn't understand the warmth behind my voice, when I said his name. Or the reasons to smile, that only he had taught me.

I wanted so much for him to understand those things. I wanted to share those things with him, just like we shared everything before I came to earth. But he couldn't believe just how wonderful he was to me.

Yet I knew one day he would have to accept the simple fact. Because regardless of time, or his silly fears, I was still here.

Here waiting quietly just so I could be near him.

FIN

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